{"id":2392,"date":"2009-05-05T03:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T08:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2009-05-05T03:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T08:56:34","slug":"is-it-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2392","title":{"rendered":"Is it Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/article\/display\/55634\/\">Teaching Peer Review <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teachers have been giving feedback on what has caught the imagination of the students. The interviews with &#8220;real&#8221; scientists and editors describing their experience of the peer review system &#8220;raised a few eyebrows.&#8221; The students were shocked to discover that the process existed at all, and that scientists welcomed constructive criticism from their peers about how they could improve a paper. This challenged the notion of scientists always being &#8220;right.&#8221; That most reviewers give their time for free also hit a chord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very importantly, they note that peer-review isn&#8217;t the same as independent confirmation \u2014 it&#8217;s simply one hurdle that screens out obviously-flawed papers with some efficiency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new course material points out that clearing the peer review process doesn&#8217;t make a piece of research &#8220;right,&#8221; it&#8217;s just one cog in the scientific development wheel. But it is an important cog, being the first point of distinction between what is speculation and opinion and what is scientific.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope this helps.  At the very least some will have learned the implications of neither the op-ed page in the newspaper nor a post at some_random_schmoe.com being peer-reviewed, and that they should be assessed accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Peer Review Teachers have been giving feedback on what has caught the imagination of the students. The interviews with &#8220;real&#8221; scientists and editors describing their experience of the peer review system &#8220;raised a few eyebrows.&#8221; The students were shocked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2392\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}